"This report, by its very length, defends itself……" — Winston Churchill

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• A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. — Erma Bombeck
• I'm not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me. — Tom Brady
• A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. — Amos Bronson Alcott
• The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself… — Amos Bronson Alcott
• No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of… — Albert Camus
• The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read. — Winston Churchill
• Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences… — Laozi
• Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons… — Frederic Bastiat
• Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant. — Sun Tzu
• When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style… — Bill Roorbach
• If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the… — Lionel Trilling

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